…So after you have your label placed on your product,…we only do a couple of adjustments as far as…shadows and highlight go to make those really look like…it's on the product and not just sitting inside a Photoshop.…If we were to leave the label like this, it will look flat and without dimension.…So, a couple of steps that we're going to do is first we're…going to adjust the overall tone of the label using a level adjustment layer.…Simply click the level adjustment to add, but instead of changing the tone…up in the histogram, we're going to go down below to the output levels.…

Grab the highlight and lower it to darken the whites inside of…the label, making it look more like the whites on the label itself.…Match the bottle.…When we add a levels adjustment layer, it's…adjusting all layers beneath of it, unless we…click this button here, which will clip it to the layer below, which is our label.…By clicking it, the levels adjustment layer will move over to the…right, and an arrow will point down to the highlighted cleaner layer.…

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4/29/2014

Processing product shots requires a slightly different set of skills than retouching portraits. But with Photoshop and the techniques shown in this course, you can take raw photos of any product—jewelry or electronics—and turn them into ad-ready images. Follow along with Kevin Stohlmeyer, as he color corrects and retouches photos and then makes them pop off the screen with silhouettes, realistic highlights and shadows, and vibrant color. He also shares a series of Photoshop actions and other automation techniques he uses to speed up his workflow.